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Scott Noel

Scott Noel is a professor of painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has taught and exhibited in Philadelphia for over thirty years. In March 2012 he opened his fifteenth gallery exhibition in the city at the Gross McCleaf Gallery which featured figure paintings and large cityscapes completed in the past two years. Noel has exhibited in New York and nationally. He has received fellowships from the Bader Foundation and the Independence Foundation and from the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Noel has also been active writing about fellow artists and curating exhibitions for museum venues, most recently "Imaginative Affinities, Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary American Paintings" at the Pennsylvania Academy.

1996-present The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing
1991-2004 Community College of Philadelphia
1995-2000 Arcadia University
1985-1989 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia

AWARDS AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS Grant
2003 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant
2000 Fellowship from the Independence Foundation
1996 Lucy Glick Memorial Award, 99th PAFA Fellowship Exhibition
1989 Fellowship Residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
First Prize for Painting, In Person exhibition, Wallingford Art Center
1988 Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1987 First Prize for Works on Paper, Greater Harrisburg Arts Festival
1977 Scholarship to the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT